Added another dose from the 1990 Danish Radio interview in which we learn about R&B, Charity Gigs, and the writing of Deltawhich our Little Richard impersonator 'attacked with my usual ferocity' (thanks, Niels-Erik)

A point of interest: if you are planning to buy Within our House by the Gary Brooker ensemble, there are still copies of the original recording available from Gary himself; the Repertoire re-issue liner suggests that the original edition is sold out but BtP understands that this is not the case.

April 21:

Which PH composer turns to Bach for inspiration? Added another section from Gary Brooker's 1990 Danish Radio interview, about Fishing, Bach and the future(thanks, Niels-Erik)

Shine On news: we understand from Diane Rolph that the new Shine On is ready to go to press but for the Ringo tour dates which are still not available. Shine On have received a few anxious messages wondering where the new issue is: there's no need to worry, and nobody has been removed from the mailing-list. As it's a free sheet, it doesn't make economic sense to send it until the prime news is in. UK readers may like to know, however, that the Shepherds Bush Empire is the only scheduled British gig for the all-Starrs.

Proudly expanding our range of international contributions, we add a good report from Poland's Tylko Rock on Gary Brooker among the Ringo All-Starrs at Jones Beach in 1997. (Thanks, Pawel and Mirek Plodzik)

April 12: the anniversary of 1971's great WPLJ radio show, bootlegged as The Elusive Procol Harum

'Keith tends to sit there for about two hours and then comes up with one more line.' Added another part of Gary Brooker's 1990 Danish Radio interview, about working with other Procols which can be 'quite a painful process'. (thanks, Niels-Erik)

'The late Wilson was one of rock's most underrated percussionists' comments a perceptive Keith Reid interview recently sent in by Joan May. Read about Robin Trower's 'ear-splittingly loud' playing, and find out who was 'probably the most talented musician' Keith ever worked with.

April 9:

Following on from yesterday's instalment, added an interview from Danish Radio which explores the Brooker / Beatle relationship: especially as regards Eight Days a Week. (thanks, Niels-Erik)

Should 'Beyond the Pale' reproduce a clumsy, spiteful, dismissive review of the music that its visitors love? Or should we suppress adverse opinion, and distort Procol history? 'Nothing but the truth' is the only policy that makes sense here ... and anyway, who's going to believe such nasty pieces of work?

And to round off April Fool's day: congratulations to Joan and Christina for seeing through our fantasy story about the Norwegian strike. Thanks to everybody for their support by mailing travnaas@online.no and even by sending letters to the Norwegian embassy in New York!

And finally, thanks to Jens's son, Torjus, for the use of his e-mail address and for forwarding the mails to the webmasters at BtP. As a tribute to him, we supply a link to his Metallica website. Please make a visit, to help his counter tick like BtP's.

In case you didn't know that there was another album named 'A Salty Dog' which had different tracks on it from the original, read the latest addition to our list of Procol Harum compilation-albums (thanks, Dave Lee)

Added information about the variant sleeves for Shine On Brightly(thanks, Yan Friis)

Added a link to an interesting article that suggests (when you read far enough) that Shine on Brightly was lucky not to have been suppressed by the same people who stopped the original Pandora's Box and Robe of Silk from coming out. (Thanks, Alta Vista!)